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Former Head Of Republican Party Attacks Marjorie Taylor Greene

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The former head of the Republican Party, Michael Steele, who has become one of the most anti-Republican voices on MSNBC has set his sights on Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. He appeared on the on MSNBC show “The 11th Hour,” where host Stephanie Rhule asked him about Rep. Greene’s idea for a “national divorce.”

“She has no clue what the hell she’s talking about. Why do we listen to this crazy fool?” he said.

“Marjorie Taylor Greene, please just shut the hell up. Do us all a favor. You are an embarrassment to the Republican Party and to the country as a congresswoman. You sit there, you say this kind of crazy,” the former Republican chair said.

“Mitt Romney said it best. We fought that war. A Republican president lost his life over trying to save the union, and this fool wants to split it? So, here we go. This is the kind of crazy that requires a lot of heavy thinking, because she isn’t,” he said.

He went on to tell the representative and her supporters to take your “ass somewhere else and give us back our money.”

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Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney also shredded the idea of a national divorce when he spoke to reporters.

“I think Abraham Lincoln dealt with that kind of insanity. We’re not going to divide the country, it’s united we stand, divided we fall,” the senator said.

Even Fox News host Laura Ingraham was not a fan of the idea.

“We need a national divorce,” the firebrand Republican Georgia representative said in a tweet on Presidents’ Day this week. “We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s [sic] traitorous America Last policies, we are done.”

Ingraham also showed a clip of the representative saying that people who move from blue states to red states should not be allowed to vote for five years.

“Red states could choose in how they allow people to vote in their states… What I think would be something that some red states could propose is, well, ok, if Democrat voters choose to flee these blue states where they cannot tolerate the living conditions, they don’t want their children taught these horrible things, and they really changed their mind on types of policies that they support, well, once they move to a red state, guess what? Maybe you don’t get to vote for five years,” she said.

Ingraham correctly said that such a law would not be legal by the Constitution.

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“Ok, well, first, a law prohibiting American citizens – who’ve not committed a crime – from voting would probably not withstand legal scrutiny,” the host said. “And, second, how would like a national divorce be good for conservatism? Now, why would we want to embrace the states that gave us Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, but essentially give up on the states that gave us Reagan and Trump?”

“The last thing we need is an American breakup of any sort. Remember, a motto of this show almost from the start over five years ago has been ‘no state left behind.’ Just because it often seems like Democrats have given up on America themselves, doesn’t mean ever that Republicans or conservatives should,” she said.

The host then spoke to Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz who agreed that a national divorce was not the answer.

“Well, again, I understand how frustrating it is to see these states, again, descend into darkness, but do you agree with what she’s saying here?” she said.

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“I’m not for a national divorce, but I do think the federal government should at least have to spend the night on the couch for a while, like, you know, Bill Clinton had to after the Monica Lewinsky stuff. I’ve been with Marjorie Taylor Greene as we’ve traveled to places like California advocating for the God-fearing red-blooded Americans who live there, and too often we see a homogenized federal wokeness pushed on parts of the country who don’t want it,” Rep. Gaetz said.

“I believe that the best pushback is a national renewal, not a national divorce. It’s something that Marjorie Taylor Greene is certainly helping to inspire. But, look, we’re a country that when we had the presidency, the House and the Senate, we couldn’t even secure the border. So, I don’t believe we would be able to effectuate any type of national divorce. And I think that the politics of the America-first priorities would do a great deal to unify us,” he said.

“And, hey, it would be one thing, Laura, to reject a national divorce more fervently if we didn’t have our leaders cheating on the country with Ukraine, which is what we saw from President Biden recently,” he said.

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